Improvement in gas-condensers



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No.1'58,433. PaterItedJan.5,1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

PETER MUNZINGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO MORRIS, TASKER & GO.,'OF SAME PLACE.-

IMPROVEMENT IN GAS-CONDENSERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,433, dated January 5, 1875; application filed November 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER MUNZINGER, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a Multitubular and Frictional Gas-Condenser, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in a gas-condenser having a number of chambers one above another, and provided each with a series of tubes in ahorizontal plane, through which the water flows, the chambers having perforated bottoms communicating with each other, whereby, as the water passes into one end of the condenser, and through all the chambers and their tubes, and out at the other end of the same, its temperature is gradually raised by the action of the gas as it passes from the gas box or case at the water-exit end, and the sudden cooling of the gas is prevented and a gradual condensation thereof is effected. The invention further consists in each alternate seriesof tubes being in different vertical planes from the intermediate ones, to cause a deflection of the gas, whereby it is improved in quality, as the-longer the ammoniacal gas is p kept with the hydrocarbon gas the better is the result.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved condenser in section, with the exception of the gas box or case A, which is shown in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view with the cap-plate D removed.

Like letters of reference in both figures indicate the same parts.

A is the box or case, into which the gas is received by means of the pipe at. A series of water-chambers, B, are connected together, one above another, as seen in Fig. 1, the top chamber having an induction pipe, b, and the bottom chamber an exit pipe I). The bottoms of the chambers have perforations c for the downward passage of the water. Each chamber is provided with water-tubes O, the ends of which open into said chambers. The tubes of intermediate chambers are in a different vertical plane from those of the contiguous chambers, so as to cause the gas in its flow between the tubes to be deflected, and

thus to keep it longer in the condenser to im= prove its quality.

In the drawings the tubes run parallel with each other throughout all the sections, and the tubes of alternate chambers or sections are in vertical planes between those of contiguous sections. A like result may, however, be obtained by having the tubes of each section arranged crosswise of the contiguous sections.

D is the cap-plate of the condenser. It has a pipe, 01, at its top for the outflow of the gas.

The operation of this in vention is as follows: Water is passed through the pipeb into the upper chamber B, and fills, all the chambers and their tubes 0, and when the condensation of the gas is not being carried on it is prevented flowing out through the exitpipe b of the bottom chamber by means of a stop-cock, (not shown in the drawings.)

When the gas is admitted to the condenser through the pipe a the stop-cock is open, so as to admit of the outflow of water from the pipe I) as fast as it flows into the top chamber through the pipe I), to cause a continual renewal of the same to-compensate for the gradualncooling of the water as the gas passes a 1 up between the tubes 0, as represented by the arrows in Fig. 1.

The gas in its passage between the tubes is broken up, so as to come more.directly in contact with their surfaces, and cause a more uniform separation of the richer gases from the ammoniacal and other impure gases.

I claim as my invention 1. The series of chambers B, having perforated bottoms and provided with watertubes G, in combination with the gas box or case A, substantially in the manner and for the purpose above described.

2. In a gas-condenser having a series of water-chambers, B, a gas box or case, A, and water-tubes 0, having open communication with said chambers, the combination of the induction water-pipe b, with chamber B at one end of the condenser and a water-exit pipe at the other and same end as the gas-inlet, whereby as the waterpasses to the exit end of the condenser its temperature is gradually in the alternate chambers, whereby the gas is raised by the action of heat of the gas upon deflected as it passes between the tubes, subthe surfaces of the tubes, and the gradual stantially as described.

condensation of the gas is effected as it passes between the tubes, substantially as de- PETER MUNZINGER.

scribed. Witnesses:

3. In a gas-condenser, the combination of THOMAS J. BEWLEY, the water-tubes O in difi'erent vertical planes STEPHEN USTICK. 

